Rangers at Hurricanes again … It’s Go Time!

Henrik Lundqvist is one win short of tying Mike Richter’s franchise record of 301, and is tied with Eddie Giacomin for the team record of 49 career shutouts.

He starts in goal again tonight, coming off a win in Raleigh Friday and a shutout of Detroit Sunday for win No. 300.

Derek Dorsett goes back into the lineup as Daniel Carcillo is prucha’d along with Justin Falk and Raphael Diaz. Otherwise the same lineup for the Rangers.

The Rangers have won 17 of their last 22 road games (with two separate six-game road win streaks), and have won 10 in a row against Carolina, including six in a row in Raleigh (and eight of nine there).

The Rangers begin a stretch of three in a row (in four nights) and 10 of the next 13 on the road. They will then play three of their last four games at home.

The Hurricanes have lost six of their last seven.

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one of the best lines
from Carp
that i can’t help using again and again
is
“….for what?”

all this talk about getting rid of Stralman
for a nasty d-man is great
heck!
i’d love a top 4 nasty d-man (as would 29 other teams’ GMs)
but
if we traded him, what do we really get and would it be an upgrade?
if it is,
see ya and good luck!
but
if it’s just to trade the guy because he doesn’t have snarl 24/7 (although he had some of that recently) then what’s the point
unless you’re just desperate to pass some time ’til faceoff

looks like Vancouver is collapsing. Tortorella looks to be out of a job after his first season with the Canucks. I wonder if Tortorella will get another coaching job if he does get let go by Vancouver. it could take Tortorella a few years or maybe more before another franchise hires him to coach.

is this the team thats supposedly offensively deep now? where is nash? where is richards? mcdonagh is our best offensive player lately. we just love pissin away points to crap teams. hopefully one of brass-zuke-poulout score cuz nobody else seems like they are willing to drive the net n get a dirty goal

Stralman falling down was comical, but by challenging JStaal, I thought Stralman bought enough time for a teammate (someone, anyone) to get back into position on the back check and take away the two long cross ice passes.

They obviously didn’t skate with the required effort to arrive in time.

Here’s how you know your superstar isn’t a superstar: If you start to make a “Rick Nash for Riley Nash” joke then realize “well … Carolina might not want to deal with that contract”, you probably don’t have a real superstar.

Remember these six points. They won’t be the last ones that haunt them at the end of the year. They are the difference between making the playoffs (or not), having home ice advantage, or being a wild card led to slaughter against a division winner.

and not for nothin, but i like to think we ranger fans can come here to vent, and say whats on our minds. we used to have a group of people here who would bash u if u said anything remotely negative about the rangers. well, if they played hard and tried and lost then fine, nobody should get too down on them. this was not one of those times.

mister bear, after cally was shot down, i dont think stralman will eff with satherpuss. staal had a bad one, but he does deserve a raise. brass has basically hit his potential. he might get lucky one year and hit the 20 goal mark. he shouldnt be asking for much more than he already makes. but u know how players love to bleed us dry for that big payday. and most of the time they get worse, or at the least, complacent

Carp, Callahan had 8 hits (and an assist) last night but I think that means nothing and doesn’t help a team very much at all because I need to see atleast 25 goals before I think a guy has serious value.

If you aren’t scoring goals, you aren’t helping your team win. Plain and simple. Score a goal, you’re a winner. Don’t score a goal, you’re a loser. I would literally pay $0 on the free agent market for something that isn’t goals.

Alain – as you know, at the end of the day goals count for something….hits are important in a 7 game series no doubt, but cally’s hits aren’t exactly bone shattering unless you count his own bones which shatter more often than not…

I have learned in a short time here that goals don’t mean anything, nor do the skills associated with creating goal scoring opportunities. The only things that matter are hits, penalties, toughness, leadership, and locker room chemistry

I went to the Panthers-Coyotes game tonight, and sitting behind me is this annoying chick who kept screaming “goooooo scottttttt” for your favorite player and mine….Scotty Gomez.
So after the 5th time (let’s face it, how many times can she scream his name given how few shifts he’s given) I look back at her and laugh.
She immediately confronts me and says “What?! Is there a problem? You’re at a hockey game! If you don’t want to hear screaming, don’t go to a hockey game.” So…. I then respond by telling her “well here’s my problem, the best thing your boy Gomez has done in the last 5 years was sending McDonagh to the Rangers..” Yeah, she didn’t care for that comment and here’s why:

Turns out, that annoying chick happened to have been Gomez’s Sister…. Oops :)